Most Popular Pollution Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Pollution Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Trump Mounts Sweeping Attack on Pollution and Climate Rules
Mar 13 2025 // The Trump administration is launching a sweeping overhaul of US environmental mandates in a campaign it billed as the “biggest deregulatory action” of its kind in US history. The Environmental Protection Agency...
#2 EPA to Rollback Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
May 16 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common...
#3 Supreme Court Dealt Blows to EPA and Environmental Protections
Jul 1 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority and relaxing requirements for...
#4 Judge Allows Lobster Fishermen to Sue Environmental Group for Defamation
Mar 6 2025 // A group of lobster fishermen can sue one of the world’s largest seafood watchdog groups for defamation, a federal court has ruled, over a report that described Maine lobster as an unwise choice for consumers. The...
#5 EPA Submits to Congress Approved EV Plan Adopted by 11 States
Feb 20 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it has submitted the Biden administration’s approval of California’s landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 to Congress for...
#6 How E-Deliveries Are Fueling More Crashes, Traffic, Pollution and Worker Injuries
Nov 26 2025 // Rapidly growing e-commerce and last-mile delivery services have contributed to significant increases in crashes, traffic, workplace injuries and air pollution, according to a report from New York City Comptroller Brad...
#7 Environmental Lawyers Get Ready to Pounce on Energy Deregulation Moves
Apr 23 2025 // U.S. environmental groups say they are hiring lawyers and preparing for a major legal showdown with President Donald Trump’s administration over its rapid-fire and sweeping efforts to sidestep federal regulations on...
#8 Budget Cuts at EPA Become Flashpoint at a Heated Hearing
May 22 2025 // The head of the Environmental Protection Agency clashed with Democratic senators Wednesday, accusing one of being an “aspiring fiction writer” and saying another does not “care about wasting money.”...
#9 Newsom Signs Bill Overhauling California’s Landmark Environmental Law
Jul 1 2025 // Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law a bill that will remake California’s landmark environmental protection rules, an overhaul that he says is essential to address the state’s housing shortage and...
#10 Texas AG Secures $60M Judgment in Pollution Case
May 14 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week announced a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for...
#11 Rural Texas Residents Struggle with Noise Pollution from Nearby Crypto Facility
Oct 9 2025 // Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch, watching the sun slowly dip behind the cows grazing on their neighbor’s ranch. It was the calm country life they...
#12 Trump Poised to Repeal Biden Curb on Power-Plant Pollution
Jun 11 2025 // he Trump administration will propose scrapping Biden-era climate mandates requiring the nation’s power plants to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions as soon as Wednesday, according to people familiar with...
#13 Lawsuit Alleging Environmental Racism in Louisiana Parish Allowed to Proceed
Apr 11 2025 // A civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward, a federal appellate court says. On Thursday, the...
#14 EPA Reaches $1.1M Settlement With Illinois Chemical Solutions Company
Jun 9 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with chemicals solutions company Stepan Co. of Northbrook, Illinois, for allegedly distributing or selling a misbranded pesticide in violation of the Federal...
#15 Study Finds High Rates of Cancer Near Hazardous San Jacinto River Waste Pits
Feb 25 2025 // Texans living in a 250-square-mile area of Harris County that includes a hazardous Superfund site had abnormally high rates of certain types of cancer, according to a new assessment from the state’s health...
#16 Illinois Chemical Manufacturer Reaches $400K Settlement With EPA
May 9 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act with Nalco Production LLC and Nalco Co. LLC. The companies manufacture polymer blend chemicals at their facility...
#17 EPA Wants to Roll Back Super Pollutant Rules
Oct 2 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed loosening a rule phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, highly potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. The Tuesday proposal comes...
#18 US Supreme Court Sets Test for Which Courts Can Hear EPA Cases
Jun 19 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court established rules of the road on Wednesday to determine when lawsuits challenging actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency related to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions should be...
#19 EPA Considers Weakening Regulations on Coal Ash Disposal
Apr 17 2025 // In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium twice over — threaten groundwater with...
#20 Florida’s Once-Pristine Springs Threatened by Pollution, Development, Climate
Sep 2 2025 // Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs serve as beaches...
